Paul C Abbott

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[Paul C Abbott @paulcabbott]

@nicolekargin @exosome “It's not like AI is mixing compounds in the lab”: Doesn’t Emerald Cloud Lab already enable this? https://t.co/sbjuWLeoFi

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@pmddomingos Research resulting in the 1999 Nobel Prize—awarded ”for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions"—used Schoonschip (developed by Veltman in the 1960s), which was the cornerstone of the comprehensive work of testing different ideas to renormalize the theory…

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@oldfriend99 @leecronin As AI trains on richer behavioral and contextual data, surely it can arrive at something at least “approximating” human memories, which involve subconscious processing of historical data, lived experiences, and subtle pattern recognition?

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@heygurisingh "The Abstraction Fallacy, Refuted: Why Alexander Lerchner's Anti-Al Argument Fails": https://t.co/hfiQQCcAes

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@gregeganSF Already had my vaccines for flu, hooping cough, the latest strain of COVID-19—and shingles too…

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@nileshtrivedi @AlexKontorovich I liked “math boys”…

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@leecronin For a more reasoned analysis, have a read of this: https://t.co/hfiQQCcAes

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@pickover @etiennejcb Which reminds me of “Life in Life”: https://t.co/ojB2m38K8h

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@AlphaSignalAI And a refutation: https://t.co/hfiQQCcAes

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@DevaTemple A refutation: https://t.co/hfiQQCcAes

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@gregeganSF I note that it is linked from the paper that you referenced…

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@gregeganSF ICYMI, this paper uses *KnotTheory* and Mathematica to implement the knot invariant and ‘QR Code’: https://t.co/guebIJAKL8

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I found this thread very interesting and most enlightening! In particular, the observation that, in different bases, the transformers fail on the *same* numbers…

[Axiom @axiommathai]

1/ The Collatz conjecture has humbled mathematicians for near 90 years. Paul Erdös said "mathematics is not yet ready for such problems." 🧵

So we handed it to transformers. What they learned stunned us!

New research from Axiom's math discovery team, blog live this morning.

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@australian This was reported in @guardian over two years ago: https://t.co/H0xdzvYn2o

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@antarte_ @RokoMijic @tegmark says that the universe IS mathematics—but I am not convinced by his arguments:

https://t.co/RLG9J1dUb3

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@leecronin @hectorzenil: you might want to quote this…!

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@littmath Ken Ono recently joined Axiom (https://t.co/cqVSnwrcgC), which piqued my interest—and the *coupling* of AI systems to Lean also looks promising, e.g. “Building the Mathematical Library of the Future” (https://t.co/SVg06jg3kj) and https://t.co/OM5qfYZJ3s

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@skdh Amazing things are definitely happening! For example, Ken Ono joined Axiom (https://t.co/H2BNwoKmvW)—and the coupling of AI systems to Lean looks promising, such as “Building the Mathematical Library of the Future” (https://t.co/SVg06jg3kj) and https://t.co/OM5qfYZJ3s

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@gregeganSF Saw it at Somerville and also really enjoyed it.

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@MarkHope__1 @markhumphries And changing the date would really annoy the hard right…